TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter addresses issues of what should be done and when. Structuring of the project task into a number of activities is key to planning a course of action for a project. It involves combining two dimensions: when (the time) and what (relevant subject areas or work paths). Several examples will illustrate the issue.The five-by-five model will be used to identify five parallel processes of a project: (1) task-oriented processes concerned with development of a solution, (2) organisational change processes focusing on understanding and accepting the change, (3) application and operational processes concerned with application and use of the project’s results, (4) environmental processes focusing on the interplay between the project and its environment including stakeholders, and (5) management processes dealing with activities in the middle box of the five-by-five model.A number of models of the project’s course of action will be presented and discussed, e.g., a waterfall model, a parallel stream model based on the four perspectives introduced in Chapter 1, the course of actions as decisions and as a change process. Finally, we shall discuss Agile and Lean project management.
SN  - 978-1-78714-830-7, 978-1-78714-829-1/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-78714-829-120171004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-829-120171004
AU  - Mikkelsen Hans
AU  - Riis Jens O.
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Planning the Course of Action
T2  - Project Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 87
EP  - 144
Y2  - 2024/05/13
ER  -